The socialist market economy of the People's Republic of China is the world's second largest economy by nominal GDP and the world's largest economy by purchasing power parity. Until 2015, China was the world's fastest-growing major economy, with growth rates averaging 10% over 30 years. This growth rate is now estimated to be the same for global influence rate in all fields. The Chinese army is one of the five most powerful armies on earth; with a soldier population is estimated to be 7,054,000 in total, while the American army consists of less than 3 million soldiers. Obviously, Chinese can staff more men in a potent fight with USA.In closing a nationalistic speech to parliament, president Xi Jinping, where laid out China's vision, he promised of a new era of military might. Xi said that any nation interfering in China's territorial integrity would face "the punishment of history."Zambia has anywhere from 13,000 and 23,000 Chinese nationals, and many arrived in the last several years as workers for Chinese state-owned enterprises or private firms. Chinese investors are heavily invested in local mining operations.About 1 million Chinese citizens have arrived in Africa since 2001, with China emerging as Africa's largest trading partner and Chinese companies stepping up investment in oil and infrastructure projects. China's exploitative relationship abroad with African nations became most evident when it was discovered that the Chinese government's gift of a headquarters building and computer network for the African Union in Addis Ababa contained a back door to facilitate the transfer of data to servers in Shanghai. Beijing shells out $20 million a year to lease the real estate for its base in Djibouti, and has already stationed over 1,000 troops there, with sufficient space for 10 times that number if needed. On top of that, the Chinese government "Then I stood on the sand of the sea and behold, a great, fiery red dragon rose up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns. His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth." Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy; for the time is near, things that must surely take place.China's Army is the largest army in Asia. Numbering 1.6 million active duty troops, the PLAGF is charged with securing China's borders, providing a capability to project land power in China's neighborhood and increasingly, on a global scaleEvery March, as part of its annual state budget, China releases a single overall figure for national military expenditures. In 2016, the Chinese government's official defense spending figure was $146 billion, an increase of 11% from the budget of$131 billion in 2014."The investments appear to generate political influence, stealthily expand China's military presence, and create an advantageous strategic environment in the region," read the report.Researchers said that the strategic investments in the 15 ports across the Indo-Pacific region reflect China's ambition to become a rising maritime power. Chase predicts that China could potentially establish a few more bases in the next few years as the BRI offers Beijing an opportunity to expand its naval influence beyond its neighboring regions.As China continues its efforts to modernize the PLA and expand its military influence...............Xi said that any nation interfering in China's territorial integrity would face "the punishment of historyBut to focus on this reluctance, and the reassuring Chinese statements reflecting it, is a mistake. Although China does not want to usurp the United States' position as the leader of a global order, its actual aim is nearly as consequential. In the Indo-Pacific region, China wants complete dominance; it wants to force the United States out and become the region's unchallenged political, economic, and military hegemon. And globally, even though it is happy to leave the United States in the driver's seat ...........
